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Originally Posted by Exil3d
I think the Pro2 does have the same ran But its rwading incorrectly.
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Whatcha drinking? Vodka here lol
Yes, it DOES have the same RAM, it is just calculated differently, and it page-pools some stuff to give it the nice apparent speed increase. Like Opera staying resident and pre-fetching pages hourly (which there is a hack for if you really think you rather have a bigger number showing for memory). Then there is the issue of the TP1 counting the 32 megs that is Shadow Ram, which means the video ROM is loaded into RAM by the BIOS because RAM is faster. It happens on both the TP1 & 2, but the TP2 doesn't count it, hence the 256 meg of RAM, and the TP1 DOES count it, hence the 288 meg of RAM. But that RAM is NEVER accessible on either device.
The belief that there is less memory is a RED HERRING, it just ain't the case in reality.
It's like the oldest PC's, the 8-bit 8088's and 286's, which could only address 640k of RAM. Then some came out with 1 meg, because they realized that they could shadow the ROM into the extra RAM, and read it from RAM instead of ROM for a speed increase. Old trick............